Stark (language)

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In the Ender's Game series fiction of Orson Scott Card, Stark, short for Starways Common, is the common interstellar language which evolved from "IF Common," which in turn evolved from American English and IF Common over the 3000 years between the novels Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. It is the official language of the Starways Congress and the primary language of most of the Hundred Worlds.

Although the characters of Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind speak Stark, their speech has been translated into English in the books, so the reader has no way of ascertaining the difference between the languages. However, the character Ender Wiggin, who grew up on Earth thousands of years earlier and speaks English natively, notes that Stark is very similar to English. Some differences are noted in other Enderverse novels, such as the lack of the word whom.

[edit] See also

• Fictional language
• Basic in the Star Wars universe.

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